Perspective

While the book is certainly a serious piece of scholarship marshaling a huge number of statistics and grappling with numerous ideas and cultural phenomenon, it is also unabashedly written in defense of Millenials. In many ways, this stance is merely a corrective to all the negative stories about Millenial youth circulating among the media and politicians, but at times it does seem as though Howe and Strauss are straining the evidence to make their point. Howe and Strauss are very well known experts on the subject of generations and have written several books on the subject together, most notably "Generations," "13th Gen," and "The Fourth Turning." Their bias in favor of Millenials may derive from the fact that they are both fathers of Millenial children, but Strauss also has two very late Generation X children. This fact could easily bias Howe and Strauss into wanting to see nothing...